Wringer attachment.



F T JOHNSON WBINGEB ATTACHMENT.

APPLIOATIOH rnnn D110. 26, 1911.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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FRANCIS T. JOHNSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WRINGER ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 26, 1911.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913. Serial No. 667,592.

'a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in VVringer Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wringer attachments and has for its object to provide means for feeding the material to the wringer and for serving as a guard to prevent the operator from putting his hands so close to the wringer as to run the risk of being caught between its rolls. I accomplish these objects by providing a feeding roll mechanism in close proximity to the wringer and driven therefrom. The arrangement is such that the feeding device can receive the goods and carry them forward in such close proximity to the wringer that they will be engaged and carried through the wringer properly although the hands of the operator never come into a position of danger.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein-- Figure 1 is an end view of the device. Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 a 1detail of one end of the upper wringer r0 1.

Like parts are indicated by the same letters in all the figures.

A, A are the side bars and B the top bar of the wringer frame in which is mounted in any desired manner the wringer rolls C, C. A pulley D is secured by means of a set screw D on the end D of the upper wringer roll.

E is the feed and guard roll preferably having the reduced ends E E adapted to be secured by the set screws E E to the lower ends of the hangers each of which consists of two pieces E E slotted at E and adjustably secured together by the bolts E and pivotally attached at E to the side of the wringer frame or a projection E therefrom.

F-is a pulley secured on the shank of the set screw E which projects from one end of the roller E. The relation of the parts is such that, as indicated in Fig. 1, the pulley F rests upon the edge of the pulley D on either side of the wringer frame so that in either position the feed and guard roll E is in close proximity to the wringer rolls C, C and its upper edge in substantially the same horizontal plane as the meeting faces of the rolls C, C. The roll E is thus driven from the upper wringer roll and the device as illustrated is applicable to wringer-s where there is means for reversing the direction of rotation of the wringer rolls because when it is to be done, it is necessary only to swing the roll frame about its pivotal support so as to bring the roll onto the other side of the wringer roll, which wringer roll will have normally reversed its direction of rotation, and accordingly the direction of rotation of the feed and guard roll will be reversed, and therefore their relative directions of rotation will be the same and the desired feeding and guarding results will still be obtained.

The use and operation of my invention are as follows :The feed roll is supported or suspended from the wringer frame by suitable arms in proper position on either side of the wringer, and is frictionally driven therefrom by the pulleys on the wringer and onthe feed roll. The roll is spaced from the wringer roll and acts both as a feed roll and as a guard roll in that the clothes are fed over it and in that it is separated from the wringer rolls a sufiicient distance to keep to a large extent the clothing and parts of the body of the operator from coming into contact with the wringer rolls.

I claim The combination with a' wringer of hang ers pivotally mounted thereon at a point above the wringer rolls, a guard and feed roll mounted in said hangers, a driving pulley on one of the wringer rolls and a driving pulley on the guard and feed roll, said pulleys being in frictional engagement one with the other, said guard roll and hangers being free to swing about the pivotal point from one side of the wringer to the other.

FRANCIS T. JOHNSON.

Witnesses: I FnANoIs W. PARPER, Jr., LILLIAN G. Ross. 

